Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Author "Saylor, Megan"
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DeLisle, Sarah S. (Vanderbilt University, 2009)Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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Girgis, Matthew (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Children frequently learn about absent objects from verbal descriptions in everyday life. 3- and 4-year-olds were read verbal descriptions of novel creatures with novel labels and were then asked to choose the described ...
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Rowe, Lindsey (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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Dyer, Richard C. (Richard Chandler) (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
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Wymer, Kevin M. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...
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Jacobson, John D. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
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Michael, Jamie (Vanderbilt University, 2014)Abnormal multisensory integration is thought to play an important role in anomalous dissociative experiences of the body and self, including out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and feelings-of-presence. Aspects of OBEs including ...
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Guicherit, Isabelle; Saylor, Megan; Janakiefski, Laura (Vanderbilt University, 2022)When preschoolers encounter a new word and word meaning, they can quickly link the two items to learn a new word. When not provided with the necessary items to learn a word, preschoolers will drive their own word learning. ...
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Rector, Miranda (Vanderbilt University, 2008-05-20)The current study addresses the relationship between the parent's ability to speak about cancer related issues in a syntactically appropriate level for the child's age on the child's distress and coping as seen in the ...
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Krensky, Lauren (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)The present study investigates 4-year-old children’s ability to use speakers’ pragmatic competence as an indicator of whom to learn from. In this study, pragmatic competence is measured as the speaker’s ability to adhere ...
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Crawford, Jordan (Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)
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Einhorn, Honora E. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)
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Kramer, Lindsay B. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life event, one’s assumptive world is ...
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Clinton, Sarah (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-10)The relationship between childhood trauma and Bipolar Disorder was investigated by analyzing Childhood Trauma Questionnaires of participants with Type I or Type II BD. Due to the small sample size, data were not found to ...